In the evening, Shang Xiye sent someone to deliver a large quantity of medicinal herbs that Ji Fengyao wanted to buy. Ji Fengyao prepared a prescription and had Lin Shuang personally watch her brew it. She then poured it into the bath tub for her first medicinal bath.

"Miss, are you feeling unwell? Why are you soaking in this dark medicinal soup?" Xi Que asked with great concern and confusion after testing the water temperature for Ji Fengyao.

"You'll understand later. You, Bailu, and Linshuang, go and guard the door. No one is allowed to disturb you until I call you," Ji Fengyao instructed sternly.

The first medicinal bath is very important. She must concentrate fully to better understand the aptitude of this body and determine the future direction and progress of her cultivation.

If she gets distracted or interrupted along the way, she might miss some details. These potential problems in the early stages of cultivation will inevitably grow into obstacles on her path of cultivation, and it will be much more difficult to solve them then.

Ji Fengyao originally wanted to ask Hei Xiao to watch over the courtyard for her, but he didn't come even after she called him several times, so she guessed he was out doing something.

"Don't worry, Miss, even if the Emperor himself came, I wouldn't let him in unless you gave the word," Xique assured him, patting her chest.

The three maids retreated to guard the door.

Ji Fengyao took out the silver needles and placed them on the high stool beside the bath tub. Then she undressed and stepped into the dark, scalding hot medicinal soup with her slender feet. The temperature of the boiling soup made her feet shrink back slightly, but she then firmly stepped into the bath tub.

Higher temperatures help open up the pores all over the body, allowing the medicine to penetrate the body more quickly and in greater quantities. Higher temperatures also accelerate blood circulation, maximizing the effectiveness of the medicine.

The water temperature is kept at a critical point where it is very hot but not hot enough to burn a person.

Ji Fengyao gritted her teeth and endured the scalding water temperature and the stinging sensation of the medicine seeping into her flesh, meridians, and bones. Her delicate face quickly turned red, and fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.

She reached into the needle case on the high stool and took out more than a dozen silver needles, inserting them into several key acupoints on her body to keep the flow of qi and blood unobstructed, allowing the medicinal properties to circulate throughout her body.

The somewhat potent medicinal effects repeatedly washed away the impurities in her body, causing her excruciating pain. However, this was a good sign; the fact that her body could absorb so much of the medicinal properties indicated that the host had excellent aptitude and that her meridians were very wide.

To give a very simple example.

If cultivation level is a bow of the same material, then the width of the meridians is the quiver that matches the bow.

Ignoring combat skills, in a duel between opponents of the same level, the one with a larger quiver and more arrows has a better chance of winning.

What delighted Ji Fengyao even more was that this body was extremely sensitive to spiritual energy. As a large amount of impurities were expelled from her body, a small amount of spiritual energy had already seeped into her body before she had even focused on absorbing spiritual energy.

This body is simply a golden holy body tailor-made for her by the heavens so that she could return to the path of cultivation.

(Rabbit: As it turns out, you were dreaming.)

Ji Fengyao's attention was entirely focused on the medicinal bath, and Xique, Bailu, and Linshuang were all guarding the front door, so they didn't notice that Heixiao, who liked to climb in through the window, had returned.

Ji Fengyao sat cross-legged in the bathtub without making a sound. Hei Xiao didn't know she was taking a bath. He skillfully pushed open the back window and rolled into the room with a flourish.

It wasn't until they were settled inside that Hei Xiao saw Ji Fengyao soaking in the bathtub.